Good or New Movies Review
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@Auspice Nope. I really did just watch it again. I love it. F.A.K.U
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@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice Nope. I really did just watch it again. I love it. F.A.K.U
The very first time I saw that movie when it came out, all I could think was 'cool visuals ruined by it being too far up its own ass' and that opinion has not changed.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, even if those opinions are wrong and held by people who arent accustomed to the deeper, more avant-garde undertones of Cine-muhhhhh.
Anyway, I liked it. I also think that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is remarkably wooden. I don't think he's great, and I thought his Christmas song with Zoey Dessschuntelll was pretentious. Fkn hipsters and their Conor Oberst shit.
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@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice Nope. I really did just watch it again. I love it. F.A.K.U
The very first time I saw that movie when it came out, all I could think was 'cool visuals ruined by it being too far up its own ass' and that opinion has not changed.
I thought "I wish I could see a movie with crazy visuals like that, but without all the tedium" and then Marvel gave me Doctor Strange and I was happy.
Too bad duder isn't on DrS2. Hopefully it doesn't mean that they've pulled away from making it kind of a horror-y movie.
maximum craveability
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@TheOnceler said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice Nope. I really did just watch it again. I love it. F.A.K.U
The very first time I saw that movie when it came out, all I could think was 'cool visuals ruined by it being too far up its own ass' and that opinion has not changed.
I thought "I wish I could see a movie with crazy visuals like that, but without all the tedium" and then Marvel gave me Doctor Strange and I was happy.
Too bad duder isn't on DrS2. Hopefully it doesn't mean that they've pulled away from making it kind of a horror-y movie.
I felt much the same!
Inception always read to me as 'a movie for non-intellectuals to pretend they get so they can feel deep'. It just didn't hit for me, but damn it looked cool.
And then yeah, Doctor Strange came along and I was like fuck yes more of this plz
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I never saw Inception, because Christopher Nolan movies always tend to be about his creative process, which itself is usually about suppressing emotion to abide by patriarchal English virtues and I've seen that movie enough times already, thanks.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
I never saw Inception, because Christopher Nolan movies always tend to be about his creative process, which itself is usually about suppressing emotion to abide by patriarchal English virtues and I've seen that movie enough times already, thanks.
He's so hit-or-miss for me.
I loved Memento. Loved Dunkirk. Batman Begins was p good. Dark Knight was good. I never saw Dark Knight Rises (sorry but Bane talking makes me start laughing a lot).
But then it's like.
Inception. Interstellar.
Ugh.I'm mad about Interstellar still. I went wanting LEGIT SCI-FI after reading about the shit ton of money poured into modeling programs for black holes and how it actually benefited astrophysicists and..... what I got was a hamfisted awkward HUMAN WUV story.
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@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
Inception. Interstellar.
Is Interstellar the one that was supposed to be directed by, like, Spielberg or someone, but Nolan ended up directing it because of behind the scenes contract stuff?
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So I finally got around to actually watch Rise of Skywalker and I think my impression of the movie can be best summed up as 'A series of very dramatic scenes that at no point attempt to create a coherent whole'. Since every individual scene is very dramatic, the process of watching the movie is enjoyable enough and it's a fine popcorn flick. However as a casual fan of Star Wars I'm not sure I'm comfortable calling it a Star Wars movie because the movie at no point seems to particularly care about maintaining a coherent universe.
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click to showI think ultimately I'm just going to pretend this trilogy never happened. A bit like it's such a shame Matrix never got any sequels.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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If you're outside the US, Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix in February.
If you're in the US, ha ha fuck you HBO got the rights instead.
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@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:
I think my impression of the movie can be best summed up as 'A series of very dramatic scenes that at no point attempt to create a coherent whole'.
This was a point really well made by the RedLetterMedia guys too, in their review. That Abram's goal was really just to create a spectacle that overwhelmed you into being impressed and prevented you from actually asking any questions about any particular plot point by cramming the next one down your throat.
Which...it's Abrams. Par for the course.
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I tried to put my thoughts on the final Star Wars trilogy early in the thread but failed horribly with various spoiler tags. I'll try again here.
I will say right off the bat, the only difference I see now is that the critiques all stem from mature adults who saw the original trilogy as children (or when they were younger). I think a part of the more critical view of the last trilogy is that our suspension of disbelief was far greater for the original trilogy and we're more critical of the recent trilogy in our maturity.
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click to showI'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir.
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@Lotherio It did not work.
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@Lotherio Nope. Now most is missing.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin Thanks, I've done these before, not sure why I'm failing at it now heh.
ETA:
Minus the details I tried to get in that spoiler, I enjoyed the last trilogy.I mentioned it back around page 50 in this thread, but its the conclusion I imagined before Lucas started work on the prequel trilogy; we were talking about this same storyline in the 80s when I was young. Its bits and pieces that have been utilized in various parts of the EU. The only big change was Rey's lineage in my eyes and I liked the change for this trilogy, it worked within the context for me. It did make a few big locations, more could have had a story to them but some of the focus has come away from ships and locations.
The coherent criticisms don't hold for me, we accepted Solo's 12 parsec Kessel run with suspension of disbelief, before we (children of the 70s) learned a parsec was a measurement of distance and not time. I don't care to get into minutiae in favor of the story that seems better as the final film brings a few big pieces together.
And the Lando/Finn/Jannah cliff hanger is good, but again, talking about bits of Lando's story from EU would be spoiler territory but it all adds up.
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Knives Out is great.
That's all.
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Now that Nic Cage is getting into some awesome films, I vote it gets dubbed: "The ReCAGEaissance"
First the Mcconaissance; now the ReCageaissance
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@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:
First the Mcconaissance; now the ReCageaissance
I vote we remember the recon(AIR)quista so we are not doomed to repeat the past.
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Of the Oscars it won, I'm so glad 1917 won one for Best Cinematography. That was one of the things that really captured me about that movie. I'm a slut for good cinematography.
